Following yesterday’s post on plant medicine, here’s another one. Paul Stamets, author of Mycellium Running, probably wouldn’t call himself a curandero; he’s more of a researcher, teacher, and collector of the most amazing organisms on planet Earth, bar none.
Image: extremescience.com
Is this the largest organism in the world? This 2,400-acre (9.7 km2) site in eastern Oregon had a contiguous growth of mycelium before logging roads cut through it.Estimated at 1,665 football fields in size and 2,200 years old, this one fungus has killed the forest above it several times over, and in so doing has built deeper soil layers that allow the growth of ever-larger stands of trees. Mushroom-forming forest fungi are unique in that their mycelial mats can achieve such massive proportions. — Mycellium Running
I like to think of humans as mycellium: most of us are living “underground,” without notice, but open-source networked with hundreds or thousands of others in our various ways; we collect, integrate, and spread nourishment of many kinds for one and all. Thus, do WE participate in the ongoing “fabric of life.” And thus does every feeling, every thought, every action count.
Via Bob.
Are the spores to the pesticide, available to purchase anywhere?
Thank you sincerely,
Johnny Kotun
PS-we are infested with ants ?, and would love to end their reign of terror ?.
We’ve been using diatomaceous earth. It’s supposed to kill them if they touch it, but it is hard to know if they walk through it, if you don’t spray them directly.
This is the best news we’ve had in over a decade.